Republicans outraged at federal probe of media they had demanded

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May 15, 2013 at 11:21 AMMay 15, 2013 at 2:15 PM

Can you say “hypocrisy,” boys and girls?

HERE‘s a good example of hypocrisy:

If you’re wondering why the Department of Justice has been paging through two months’ worth of various Associated Press journalists’ phone records, you have to cast your mind back to the Spring of 2012.

Back then, the news was brimming with all sorts of exciting stories on the national security front. The AP reported in May that the CIA had “thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner” using “an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard ...

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Pat Cunningham

Can you say “hypocrisy,” boys and girls?

HERE‘s a good example of hypocrisy:

If you’re wondering why the Department of Justice has been paging through two months’ worth of various Associated Press journalists’ phone records, you have to cast your mind back to the Spring of 2012.

Back then, the news was brimming with all sorts of exciting stories on the national security front. The AP reported in May that the CIA had “thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner” using “an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard ...

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